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Albany Park

Albany Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States.

Albany Park
Albany Park · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Albany Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Located on the Northwest Side of Chicago with the North Branch of the Chicago River forming its east and north boundaries, it includes the ethnically diverse Albany Park neighborhood, with one of the highest percentages of foreign-born residents of any Chicago neighborhood.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Albany Park

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Wrigley Field

    Wrigley Field is a ballpark on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs, one of the city's two MLB franchises.

    5.9 km · baseball stadium in Chicago, Illinois, USA; home venue of the Chicago Cubs · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Northeastern Illinois University

    Northeastern Illinois University is a public university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1867 by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, it was established as the first teacher training school in Cook County.

    1.2 km · state university in Chicago · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Basilica of St. Hyacinth

    The Basilica of Saint Hyacinth is a historic church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, located at 3636 West Wolfram Street in the Avondale neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It is a prime example of the Polish Cathedral style of churches in both its opulence and grand scale.

    4.1 km · church in Chicago, USA · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Graceland Cemetery

    Graceland Cemetery is a large historic garden cemetery located in the north side community area of Uptown, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Established in 1860, its main entrance is at the intersection of Clark Street and Irving Park Road.

    5.1 km · cemetery in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Queen of All Saints Basilica

    Queen of All Saints Basilica is a historic church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago located at 6280 North Sauganash Avenue in Chicago's upper middle-class Sauganash neighborhood. Along with St.

    3.5 km · church in Chicago, USA · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Lincoln Square

    Lincoln Square is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the North Side of Chicago. It encompasses the smaller neighborhoods of Ravenswood, Ravenswood Gardens, Bowmanville, Budlong Woods, as well as Lincoln Square itself.

    2.5 km · Lincoln Square, Chicago · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Leather Archives and Museum

    The Leather Archives & Museum is a community archives, library, and museum located in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Founded by Chuck Renslow and Tony DeBlase in 1991, its mission is making “leather, kink, BDSM, and fetish accessible through research, preservation, education and community engagement." Renslow and DeBlase founded the museum to combat the loss and suppression of leather and fetish community history during the AIDS crisis.

    5.3 km · archives and museum of the Leather subculture · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Rosehill Cemetery

    Rosehill Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois in the United States. At 350 acres, it is the largest cemetery in the city of Chicago and its first private cemetery.

    4.1 km · cemetery in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St. Wenceslaus Church, Chicago

    St. Wenceslaus is a church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago located at 3400 North Monticello Avenue in the Avondale neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, USA. One of the many Polish churches visible from the Kennedy Expressway, it is along with St.

    3 km · Catholic church in Chicago · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Bohemian National Cemetery

    Bohemian National Cemetery is a cemetery at 5255 North Pulaski Road in North Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

    1.1 km · cemetery in Chicago · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Albany Park

Airports
Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 15 km · Chicago Midway (MDW), 21 km · General Mitchell (MKE), 110 km
Stations
Francisco, 1.5 km · Southport, 5.5 km · Argyle, 5.1 km · Granville station, 5.7 km · Berwyn station, 5.1 km
  • Milwaukee → Albany Park
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · $10–14
  • Grand Rapids → Albany Park
    202 km · quickest by road, 4h 31m · $24–33
  • Indianapolis → Albany Park
    278 km · quickest by road, 4h 44m · $24–34
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Albany Park

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Albany Park. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inChicago Executive Airport: A second designated reliever airport, it is an increasingly popular airport for chartered flights based in Wheeling and Prospect Heights.
  • Get inWaukegan Regional Airport: A third designated reliever airport, the Waukegan Regional Airport receives chartered flights.

From Wikivoyage: Chicagoland, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    1,225 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,550 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,591 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,694 km
  5. 05
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,792 km

If you know how people move in Albany Park – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Albany Park

Albany Park is 15 km from Chicago, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Uptowncommunity area of Chicago5 km
  • Portage Parkneighborhood in Chicago4 km
  • West Ridgecommunity area in Chicago, Illinois4.2 km
  • Avondalecommunity area in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America3.4 km
  • Logan Squarecommunity area in Chicago, Illinois, United States4.8 km
  • Jefferson Parkcommunity area in Chicago, Illinois4.3 km